OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 60)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire fringe, Radnorshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 60 (Montgomeryshire / Shropshire inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a upland ridge-and-valley landscape, characterised by Montgomeryshire hachured uplands, Severn valley route corridor and Welsh Marches border routes.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Montgomeryshire Severn valley, ridgeway, castle town and Welsh Marches archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Severn Valley Route Belt, Long Mountain / Border Ridge Belt

Terrain Archaeology

The terrain is interpreted using hachures. Relief is represented by hachures, allowing inference of ridgeways, high points, spur ends, valley approaches and likely route/crossing logic.

Main Geographic Information

Sheet LX / N° LX is visible in the upper-right margin and the sheet number 60 is visible at lower-left. Large county lettering is interpreted as MONTGOMERY / MONTGOMERYSHIRE across the centre-left and SHROPSHIRE across the lower/eastern portion. Bounds are reconstructed from sheet-index geometry, adjacent sheet relationships, relief pattern and identifiable settlement controls; graticule labels are faint.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 60 shows a mixed area of upland ridge-and-valley Montgomeryshire hachured uplands, Severn valley route corridor and Welsh Marches border routes . The map is useful for studying early 19th Century historic settlement patterns, Roman road alignments, early archaeological site indentification, how roads, old tracks, lanes and paths, villages, waterways and field systems related to the wider nineteenth-century landscape.

Main Geographic Features

Archaeological Predictions

Archaeological Hotspots

Severn Valley Route Belt is interpreted as a river crossing, Roman/medieval road and settlement corridor landscape. Long Mountain / Border Ridge Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway, enclosure and beacon potential landscape. Montgomery Castle / Border Node is interpreted as a castle town, route convergence and frontier archaeology landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Newtown-Welshpool Severn corridor is interpreted as a river valley route. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.Montgomery-Bishop's Castle border route is interpreted as a borderland route. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.Long Mountain ridgeway is interpreted as a ridgeway corridor. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Welshpool Severn crossing is a river crossing. Newtown Severn crossing is a river crossing. Montgomery border crossing node is a route/castle node.

Main Places